Former U.S. spy Edward Snowden on Wednesday vowed to fight any bid to extradite him from Hong Kong and promised "explosive" new revelations about Washington's surveillance targets, The South China Morning Post reported.

"We hack network backbones, like huge Internet routers, basically, that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one," he told the newspaper.

Officials have confirmed that Snowden may have more secret material.

"Apparently he's got a thumb drive," Sen. Saxby Chambliss, a Republican from Georgia, said Tuesday. "He's already exposed part of it and I guess he's going to expose the rest of it."

And the British paper The Guardian reported it believed Snowden had moved to a "safer" hotel in Hong Kong, the city to which he fled in preparation for the bombshell data dump.

"I'm neither traitor nor hero. I'm an American," Snowden said in the exclusive interview, released two days after he checked out of the city hotel and went to ground.

Supporters of the former NSA subcontractor are lauding him as a whistleblower for divulging NSA monitoring of private users' web traffic and phone records, in a worldwide trawl that the White House says was needed to keep Americans safe from terror.

So the traitor Snowden is planning to reveal the cyber secrets our nation uses to hack adversaries. And he’s still hiding out in Hong Kong, China. Are there still misguided people here who think he is some kind of hero? Good grief, it’s incredibly sad when supposed conservatives line up behind the hero’s of Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, etc. Just pathetic.

Nothing Snowden has said so far has led me to believe his intention is to reveal secrets damaging to legitimate National Security concerns. Everything he's said and done so far has been related to constitutionally questionable acts directed against Americans without reasonable cause.

This has the stench of team Obama all over it. Snowden starts out enlisting support of Americans against their government, then quickly goes into 'sabotage America's intelligence gathering capabilities against foreign countries' mode.

This is an Obama false flag, intended to undermine America's intelligence gathering capabilities. Let's tell the world what and how we spy on them, making us weaker.. Making what SHOULD be classified, UNCLASSIFIED.

Just another Obama bait and switch.. DUPING AMERICANS into supporting the disbandment of our ability to counter foreign threats.

So the hero Snowden is planning to reveal the cyber secrets our criminal, mercantilist leaders use to hack the computers of other criminal, mercantilist leaders to accumulate more wealth for themselves.

There, fix it.

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posted on 06/12/2013 1:38:07 PM PDT
by gotribe
(Limit The Government's Right To Bear Arms)

So the traitor Snowden is planning to reveal the cyber secrets our nation uses to hack adversaries.

I don't think it was Snowden who gave the Chinese the plans for most of our Military systems? Remember Clinton likely facilitated (for $$ donations) the turnover of our Nuclear Weapons system plans to the Chinese in the 90s. It was from Los Alamos.

I would like to know what documents Sandy "the evil traitor" Burger removed from the National Archives..

I have no doubt the evil leftists in this administration of facilitating the turnover of our most critical defense system designs to the enemy.

H*ll, for all we know Snowden could be acting at the behest of the Marxist President... distraction, subversion, who knows....

Spying on China and countering their hacking WITH OUR HACKING is our government’s job (national security). This is nothing more than Obama trying to GUT our intelligence capabilities. But first, he had to make you think Snowden was on your side. There are some people who will just run with their first notions and support a total block on America’s ability to spy on China, or Russia, or any other foreign country.

We don’t have secrets hidden from China and haven’t had for years now. Our defense industries are full of Chinese nationals, much of our “secret” tech is made by China, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the computers at the Utah data center are primarily Chinese made. The only thing he has China might want is PR value.

Guess I’m just not one of those people who can forget those little things when its convenient.

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posted on 06/12/2013 1:43:08 PM PDT
by cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)

I am expressing an opinion here but I don’t think that the current crop of Mexicans, Asians, and ME’s have any intention of assimilating and becoming Americans as did the pre WW II and immediately after WW II immigrants. At least I have not seen evidence of it, like learning our language and flying our flag on holidays etc...

So the traitor Snowden is planning to reveal the cyber secrets our nation uses to hack adversaries

The NSA domestic surveillance program was never secret. All Snowden has disclosed is the scope of the surveillance, and the fact that all Americans are under surveillance - even those not under suspicion.

How is that treason?

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posted on 06/12/2013 1:44:37 PM PDT
by Spirochete
(Does the FedGov have the attributes of a legitimate government?)

"We hack network backbones, like huge Internet routers, basically, that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one," he told the newspaper.

That's also why arguments over data retention laws are a sideshow. There is no need for them and their huge cost and inefficiency if the NSA is simply vacuuming up the whole of the network traffic and saving it in Bluffdale.

Spying on China and countering their hacking WITH OUR HACKING is our governments job (national security).

Unless I missed it there is nothing in this article that indicates what information the US is after on these chinese servers.

When it is clear the info was critical to national security then I will have no problem doing an about face on this guy. But it is possible this is consistent with Snowden's original charge the government is involved in spying on its own citizens.

The whole reason for the immigration act of 1965 was to justify this sort of domestic spying. When you import that many disparate groups that refuse to assimilate you create Yugoslavia. And Yugoslavia needed a Tito to keep the peace.

It becomes inevitable.

Use of this domestic database for political purges and personal gain is a guarantee. Humans are weak that way. Especially politicians.

Given the open nature of the Internet, if hackers with access to a relatively small amount of computing capacity can hack into most commercial and government sites, I'm sure the NSA with its MASSIVE supercomputing capacity could hack into almost anything. And I'm sure the Chinese--now that they have built up several supercomputing centers on Chinese soil--are doing the same thing to us, unfortunately!

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